Club Cards
Written by Confusion support on February 25, 2008 – 12:05 pm -
The other day I got to the register at a self-checkout and suddenly completely forgot what store I was in and which key ring club card I was suppose to use. It was the club cards that got me confused in the first place! Several of them looked alike and most were the same shape. When I got up to the checkout to pay I started flipping through them, after an extraordinary battle to even get them out of my pant’s pocket, and suddenly forgot which store I was in and what club card was to be used! This is getting ridiculous!
There are only two keys on my key chain. The rest of the bulk is club cards. There must be 7 or 8 of them. This key chain is continuously getting bulkier as I visit more grocery or hardware stores, or libraries. The other day some lady asked me if I was excited to see her or if that was a key ring full of club cards in my pocket. I can’t figure out how to manage these things and I can barely get them out of my pockets. Sometimes they and the keys get stuck in strange positions on the ring and it becomes a major puzzle to untangle them.
Most companies or libraries also give you a matching wallet size club card. Now how in the hell am I suppose to keep all of those in my wallet! You’d have a big bump sticking out of your buttocks area and a big bump sticking out at the front. Now what kind of a side profile would that present! It got to the point that I couldn’t find my ATM or Visa card in a hurry because of all the club cards taking up wallet space and intermingling. So of course I only keep the key ring ones and tolerate the big bump sticking out from the front only. It’s not quite as silly.
A female friend of mine has just one car key on a ring and something like 10 of these club cards from several states attached via another ring and a small flashlight on the ring as well, and maybe even a whistle. I mean….this thing is like a major weapon against attackers. Who needs mace when you got a key ring full of 10 club cards and a whistle? I can’t even get the thing in any of my pant’s pockets. You could whip this thing at an attacker and completely disable them. You could hold the cards between each finger in Ninja fashion and be formidable.
As if I didn’t have enough confusion in life already, organizations just keep piling on more stuff, like these club cards! Why don’t they simply lower the prices and actually do people a real favor! It is getting harder and harder to manage all of this.
Tags: club cards, shoppingPosted in Retail Store Confusion |
February 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Yes, those clubs are a nuisance, but chalk them up to good ol’ human psychology. People like to join things, especially if they think doing so brings them some benefit, and the marketers, clever little buggers that they are, have capitalized on that. On a similar vein, I wonder how much money people who are members of wharehouse clubs actually save in any given year. I used to belong to such a club, but decided my “savings” were probably not making up for my membership dues. Perhaps I simply didn’t do enough shopping or buy the right stuff. But back to the cards - I have a few, but only two of which I use regularly. Frankly, I wish I lived closer to a Karns market, where they seem to have figured out how to survive without the cards. I think it’ll eventually come full-circle though, as so many things in life do, when some business gets the brilliant idea to stop using the cards because of their inconvenience. Or maybe they’ll just start scanning our retinas.